Assignment 2: iwrite Jessica Nelson

My life would be much more isolated if I’d grown up 20 years earlier. We are fairly lonesome here in Kentucky. My parents and I left the rest of our family when we came here and we have very few friends in Lexington. Technology is the only way we hear from any of our relatives aside from the few times a year we travel to see them. Mostly we use Facebook, texting and phone calls, aside from the occasional Skype or email.

If it weren't for these new ways of communicating we would not have the relationships with our family that we do. We that we know the little things that go on in their daily lives, I wouldn't have seen my 2^nd cousin’s 1^st steps, I wouldn't have been able to hear about my aunt’s 1^st catering job, I wouldn't have been able to smile at my disabled cousin riding a horse.

 Not to say I would miss everything technology has given me (for example I could do without the play-by-play details of the healing of my grandmother’s wound ), but overall I think it’s worth sticking it out here in 2014. Sure there are times when I want to power everything down and shut these people out of my life, and at I have the option to do that, and I prefer to have that choice.